Help at Home, Back to School Edition
Whether you’re back to school online, in real life, or a hybrid, we’re still collecting resources to help you and your learners.Read more "Help at Home, Back to School Edition"
Coding Is Definitely a Literacy
This week, SLJ shared in an opinion column that Coding Is a Literacy. “School librarians are especially pivotal in coding literacy because, as with any other language, the age of acquisition for any language matters. Librarians are uniquely placed in schools with students from their early years, long before children have access to computer science […]Read more "Coding Is Definitely a Literacy"
Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Middle-Grade, YA, and Nonfiction
By Megan Ciskowski, Assistant Publicist Check out September new releases from Lerner Publishing Group!Read more "Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Middle-Grade, YA, and Nonfiction"
Lizard in a Zoot Suit: A Graphic Novel For Our Time
By Megan Ciskowski, Assistant Publicist Los Angeles, 1943. It’s the era of the Zoot Suit Riots, and Flaca and Cuata have a problem. It’s bigger than being grounded by their strict mother. It’s bigger than tensions with the soldiers stationed nearby. And it’s shaped like a five-foot-tall lizard. When a lost member of an unknown […]Read more "Lizard in a Zoot Suit: A Graphic Novel For Our Time"
How to Live on the Edge of Past, Present, and Future
I’m an anxious person. So are a lot of the teen characters in the novels I’ve edited. It makes sense; the teen years are fertile ground for anxiety. So much is beyond your control, even as you feel a pressure to take on greater responsibility. The present is a mess; the future is a terrifying […]Read more "How to Live on the Edge of Past, Present, and Future"
Librarian Prep Post for September & October
Welcome to the end of summer, and in some areas of the country, back to school time. Whatever your location is deciding or struggling with, we wish you all health, safety, and as little upheaval as possible. To help with your planning, here are some booklists and readers advisory for September and October.Read more "Librarian Prep Post for September & October"
What Would You Put in a Bowl Full of Peace?
By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books August 9, 2020, marks the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan. It also marks the 75th anniversary of the extraordinary survival of Sachiko Yasui—a six-year-old girl who was nine hundred meters (about half a mile) from the hypocenter in Nagasaki when […]Read more "What Would You Put in a Bowl Full of Peace?"
Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Middle Grade, YA, and Nonfiction
by Megan Ciskowski, Assistant Publicist Check out August new releases from Lerner Publishing Group!Read more "Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Middle Grade, YA, and Nonfiction"
Six Books You Don’t Want to Miss
Here’s a roundup of some delightful titles that we don’t want you to miss!Read more "Six Books You Don’t Want to Miss"
